The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-14
MONDAY
LATEST NEWS.
Dates Frcm the Coast to March 9th,
Inclusive

The City of Rio de Janeiro brought a
mail with dates to March 5th, inclusive
Following is a summary:
There is no truth in the story that the
Irish Executive has decided to proclaim
the National League and put Archbishop
Croke on trial an instigator to sedition.
Their law officers warned them that no
proof of the ArchbshOp's guilt would be
forthcoming.
ViscOunt Lymington has written Il let
ter which reflects the feeling of the Lib
eral-UniOnists, protesting that the Govern
ment's want of action, nerve and courage
is paralyZing their treatment of the Irish
question and taking day by day all the
heart and principle out Of the Unionist
cause. He declares that a vast majority
OF the Liberal nIOnIsts are ready to &C
cord the Government whatever strong
measures that may be necessary. but that
it is insufficient from any point of view
that an Irish acknowledgements Govern
ment should be permitted to exist, which,
while refusing Ireland power to govern it
self, refuses to govern Ireland After de-
nOuncing the half-hearted, pettifogging
lhCdSOISS, tiIS pIOSlitullOIls Oh cOnSIlJu-
tional forms, such as jury9acking and
the policy of fumbling lawyers and con-
fused officials he concludes: ''An irreso-
lutte Government is impossible; the only
alternative is home rule
Long Island has been shaken up by an
earthquake.
Parliament has been asked to grant
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British navy.
Serious charges of corruption have been
made against the London Corporation, and
a Committee of the House of Commons
has been appointed to investigate and re-
port.
a London dispatch of March I'd states
that while body of police at Ballyhannis
were taking a number of prisoners, arrested
for obstructing the law i'll attempting to
prevent evictions, to the police station,
mob attacked them and recovered the pris- |
Oners. They then stoned the police so Wig |
OrOusly that the latter retreated inside the |
police barracks. The mob made an on !
slaught on the building, partially wrecking |
it. The police then opened fire on the |
crowd with their rifles, compelling the |
mob to beat hasty retreat. but otherwise !
their shots were harmless. Several police
men were injured.
Italy has not pledged herself to give mu-
tual support to either France or Germany
in the~event of war.
General Boulanger has decided that no |
officer of the army shall be permitted to
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capacity.
a telegram from Shanghai says that
China has coded to Germany, Chusan, one |
of a group of islands off the eastern coast
of China, opposite the estuary of Tsien-
Tang Kiang. Numerous towns and viii
lagos are on the island, the capital being
near the south coast.
Savages captured and carried away with
them the British Vice Consul at Rio Del
Rey, in the CamarOOns country, on the
west coast of Africa. \ guifboat has been
sent to rescue him.
A sensation has been caused in Paris by
the publication in the Temps" of dis
patch from Cairo stating that all French
officials in the Khedive's service have been
dismissed.
A sensation was caused by the perpetra-
ion of very extensive incendiariSm on the
night of March Sd, in the country sur
Limerick city. A large numbe-
If houses were burned. The victims in al
.ases were persons who paid rents The
were set down as political. Great
excitement prevails. The aggregate of
property destroyed rs very large. The
res were caused by armed incendiaries,
rho escaped. The district was ablaze all
light with burning houses and hay.
The London Standard March 9Th,
tates that Russia has addressed a note to
pain regarding her resumption of freedom
f action in European affairs.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chief Secretary
)r Ireland, will resign that office on ac-
punt of his health. The Governments ,
-ish bill provides that special jury list,
rawn from classes that are not liable to
shall be formed for the trial '
special offenseS. L
March 9TH was the tenth anniversary of I
e coronation of the Pope, and the occa- t
IN was celebrated with great ceremony b